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The Midnight Spy: or, A view of the transactions of London and Westminster from the hours of ten in the evening, till five in the morning choose

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[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 63: The gentleman’s name is Bamwell [...] he is versed in all the arts of fraud.
at bam, v.1
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 76: What the bloods call, beating the rounds [...] overturning punchbowls, breaking pier-glasses, knocking down superannuated watchmen, kicking waiters, and many other heroic actions.
at beat the rounds (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] Midnight Spy 124: Behold a gang of right honourable pickpockets. The venerable company is composed of the Duke of Odds, the Earl of Bilk, Lord Viscount Cogem, Baron Jockey, Sir Samuel Snatchall, [...] and Mr. Live-by-wit.
at bilk, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy 55: Observe that company of noisy blades.
at blade, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 76: [He] strips him of his cash [...] and dismisses him with as polite an air, as a whore of fashion her bubbled cully.
at bubble, v.1
[UK] Midnight Spy 109: A parcel of jolly bucks, who [...] were determined to live their every hour, and scorned to waste their time snoring in bed.
at buck, n.1
[UK] Midnight Spy 124: Behold a gang of right honourable pickpockets. The venerable company is composed of the Duke of Odds, the Earl of Bilk, Lord Viscount Cogem, Baron Jockey, Sir Samuel Snatchall, [...] and Mr. Live-by-wit.
at cog, v.
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 71: [He] could suit the taste of a cully to as great a nicety, provided he was paid.
at cully, n.1
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 122: [Those] who by proficients in the science of debauchery, are termed flogging cullies. These unnatural beasts pay an exorbitant price for being socurged on the posteriors.
at flogging cully, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy 146: That Don with the full perriwig, and perhaps a very empty scull, has the air of a physician.
at don, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 20: Another recommended Mr Deputy Doublejug, as a worthy candidate.
at double jugg(s) (n.) under double, adj.
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 67: Being addicted to drams, she usually comes into this house much elevated.
at elevated, adj.
[UK] Midnight Spy 124: She esteems it an indispensable part of her duty to plant the horns.
at plant horns (v.) under horn, n.1
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 31: The magistrates [...] squeeze a good livelihood out of them [i.e. criminal public houses] by visiting once a quarter, demanding hush money, and making them promise to behave better.
at hush money, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 29: They entered a house, in Bridges-street, vulgarly denominated a Jelly-house [...] This scene, said [their guide] is a prelude to every kind of vice, folly, and debauchery that lust and liquor can possibly incite.
at jelly house (n.) under jelly, n.1
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 64: Her name is Jenny Decoy, she is as arrant a jilt as any in town, and [...] draws into her trammels, numbers of heated youths, and amorous dotards.
at jilt, n.1
[UK] Midnight Spy 109: A parcel of jolly bucks.
at jolly, adj.
[UK] Midnight Spy 124: Behold a gang of right honourable pickpockets. The venerable company is composed of the Duke of Odds, the Earl of Bilk, Lord Viscount Cogem, Baron Jockey, Sir Samuel Snatchall, [...] and Mr. Live-by-wit.
at Mr, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy 27: There’s always a number of those engaging nymphs plying about this place in quest of homeward-bound sailors, whom they fleece of their money and commodities.
at nymph, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy 112: From his honour exalted on the bench, to Mr. Constable in his chair at Covent Garden round-house; in one word, they are all to be palmed, and I cannot help concluding [...] that every man has his price.
at palm, v.
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 81: What became of the little Tit I recommended to you [...] was she not a delicate piece of Flesh?
at piece of flesh (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 64: The gaudy prig who sits next to him, Tom Babble, Lord Brainless, and other choice spirits of the first rank.
at prig, n.1
[UK] Midnight Spy (c.1929) 62: [of a blow] If you nag, I’ll tip you such a right one, that I’ll make you believe the devil’s come for you before your time.
at right one (n.) under right, adj.
[UK] Midnight Spy 103: A certain gentleman being pursued by one of our shoulder-dabbers, made into our house and there took shelter.
at shoulder-dab (n.) under shoulder, n.
[UK] Midnight Spy 75: Mr. Constable [...] was highly pleased to find the man one of the Trouts, (a cant word he uses for Popish priests).
at trout, n.3
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